The world is bereft with wars, failing businesses, hunger, mortgage crises, a near-to-collapsing stock exchange, and yet fat is the new lead issue on the news. I think the media experts are wearing their intellectual hats a size too small. It's affecting their brains.I read a statement in a newspaper lately that a model had been fired for being 'too fat' to fit into the fashions designed for her by some of the world's leading designers. Further information stated that the model in question was 5'10" and weighed 120 pounds. I don't know about you, but I pictured a skeletal frame with some trashy new design wrapped around her body.

Last week a photo of the model appeared on a TV news segment--that's right, I said news segment. She looked like a poster child for those who are unfortunately anorexic. This picture appeared in a fashion magazine and caused a near riot with people calling the mag to complain about severly emaciated models appearing in advertisements for new fashions. But remember, she was fired for being too fat.

That was worth a lot of copy in the press and on TV news stations.

Oh, and let's not forget about the Kirstie Alley, Jessica Simpson hullabaloos. Both are fantastically beautiful women with a load of talent. However, the focus is on their weight and it's news. I don't know about FOX News or any of the other junky news stations; I saw these items on HLN, CNN's sister station--allegely superior news stations.

Jessica Simpson said that she's only lost enough weight to be healthy and to her I say,"You go, girl!" I wrote an article on this site about how I lost 50 pounds the easy way--no drugs, no food diet plans, just plain, old exercise. However, I didn't go down to a ridiculous size 2 that seems to be the highlighted facts of most diet plans in the media. I went down to a healthy size 12. Good for Simpson.

As for the beautifully talented Kirstie Alley, I believe she's suffering from an eating disorder where she constantly loses weight and then gains it back again with interest. Eating disorders are the worst of the worst. You must eat to survive, and if that eating comes with a sensation of never feeling full, it's a Catch 22 situation. Instead of male baboons following her around on the streets mocking her weight, why doesn't someone offer to help her?

The simple answer: Media Expert-"We hear that the overly overweight Kirstie Alley has found a guru to help her deal with her eating disorder. Will it help? We doubt it since she loses 80 pounds and then gains back 100. She's doomed to live the life of an overweight freak."

Too much media exposure on the ridiculous and not enough on the serious.